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Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
HIERONYMUS HOPFER Johann Böschenstein, Professor zu Wittenberg.
Etching, 1530. 220x158 mm; 8 3/4x6 1/4 inches, small margins. Second state (of 2), with the Funck number lower right. Partial indicernable watermark (Gothic letter B ?).
Böschenstein (1472-1540) was a German Christian professor at the University of Wittenberg and an expert Hebraist. The Hebrew lines below the portrait are from Psalms 7:18 and Psalms 119:75. A very good impression of this scarce, early Judaica print. Bartsch 60.
